Handling the Truth

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"Tell it; live it; take it." This summarizes Kevin Eastman's longer quote. 

Some think MVB renewal launches next fall during tryouts at the Middle School. Nothing extends farther from the truth.

The process renews daily when you roll out of bed. Ask "how do I improve today?" 

Your process today defines what happens in August. Your performance TODAY defines what the coaches see. Players choose the lineups. You read that right. Players. Choose. 

Force your way into the lineup tomorrow through your commitment, focus, and process TODAY. 

Years ago in another community, a disgruntled parent tried to force a young coach out who had the temerity to 'cut' his son from a basketball team. The parent, a local politician, tried to make the program about playing time and his son. He came to games with a legal pad and recorded who played and how much. He held meetings trying to rally the community against the coach. A community that had sent its football team to Bermuda after winning a state title three years earlier, suddenly became one where participation not winning counted. 

Meanwhile the team kept winning, kept silencing the critic. Thirteen consecutive wins, the last in Boston Garden. 

Late in the season, The Wakefield Daily Item editor Robert Dolbeare postulated, "If victory is not the goal, then why put forth the effort?" Winning mattered. The coach stayed, eventually winning a state championship and entering the New England Basketball Hall of Fame. 

Your today becomes your tomorrow.